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Image:BlankMap-World.png – World map, Robinson projection centered on the meridian circa 11°15' to east from the Greenwich Prime Meridian. Microstates and island nations are generally represented by single or few pixels approximate to the capital; all territories indicated in the UN listing of territories and regions are exhibited.
English: An SVG map of the world with grouping enabled to connect all non-contiguous parts of a country's territory for easy coloring. Smaller countries can also be represented by larger circles to show their data more clearly.
map from wikipedia, summary there: A blank map of the world as of 2005, with country outlines. Sovereign microstates less than 2 500 km² in area are depicted as circles (see Wikipedia:Image_talk:BlankMap-World-v2.png for listing). The map uses the Robinson projection centered on the Greenwich Prime Meridian.
Replaces earlier version with incorrect borders, borders now based on map at [[continents]]. 2006-06-29 15:38 Max Naylor 1357×628×8 (35649 bytes) Blank world map with major continents marked (Russia counted as part of Asia). Based on blank map by [[User:Vardion]]
This is a version of w:Image:BlankMap-World-v2.png map on wikipedia. This map is only designed to show countries for use on statistical information to be converted into maps where it takes a long time to add the information for some over 200 countries and hence areas such as islands and large external territories owned by a country have been ...
In creating geographical maps for Wikipedia, it is often useful to have high-quality source material such as blank outline maps, Adobe Photoshop or GIMP-format images with layers, SVG files and so on. If you have such source material that you think may be helpful to other map authors, please feel free to upload it to Wikipedia and list it here.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.